hey y’all
I'm Katie.
I'm a performance & theater artist, director, writer, deviser, and educator.
My creative home is with the New York Neo-Futurists.
I’m the Theater Instructor at NC Governor’s School West.
I hold an MA in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Dramatic Art from UNC Chapel Hill.
Raised all over the South.
From many places, but mostly Asheville, North Carolina.
Based in Brooklyn, New York since 2015.
I make performances, poems, and public happenings about
Appalachia & the American South
Outer Space
leftist politics
sex
queerness
teenagehood
holiness
punks
sweat
love and rage
and lots of other things.
My pronouns are she/her.
I make plays, performance art, and poems that feel like:
That one warehouse party above a yellow school bus depot before Bushwick was ~Bushwick~ where you climbed the fire escape, passed strangers kissing, ascending to the roof where you swear you saw your dead friend and you swear he was dancing.
A barn dance that you snuck out of your mom’s house to go to, where somebody’s friend’s brother brought the keg, where you hopped in the cool girl’s wood-panel volkswagen, where you ate moonshine peaches for the first time, where you got lost and talked to animals in the dark woods.
The game of spin-the-bottle that started it all.
Piercing your friend’s ear and the safety pin gets stuck mid-flesh, what do we do? Don’t freak out, breathe.
Breathe.
Okay. One, two, three.
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Photos by Emma Pilkington Mead @theemmaexperience